MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2638, 8 December 1915, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CIVIL BUSINESS

UNDEFENDED CLAIMS

'Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., presided at the' civil sittings of the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when, judgment by default was given' for the plaintiffs in the following undefended claims:—E. H. Jones 'vi Robert Hare, .£lO 10s., costs =£1 13s. Gd.; Arthur Havan v. Cecil M. Ellison, ill l'Js. '6d., costs 135.; R. G. Dun and Co. v. W. Odgers, £i os. 6d., costs l~s.; Phelps, Wilson and Co. v. Wm. Odgers, ,£5 l'Js., costs JGI Bs. fkl.; Emmeline Gibb v. Mary S. Brailsford, JB6I 10s., costs- ,£i 6s. 6d.; Law 'Book Co. of N.Z., Ltd., v. 'S. P. Briggs, i£2 12s. 6d., costs 10s. Wellington City Council v. Catherine Bresnan, £5 lis., coots, Bs.; Kirkcaldie and Stains, •Ltd., v. G. W. . Waymouth; £$, costs .£1 Us.'Sd.; Robert Martin, Ltd., v. Marie E. Bunting, «811.165., costs £l 13s. 6d.; P. Ahradsen v. F. Beard, «E4 19s. lid., costs Ms.; P. Ahradsen v. A. Wallace, costs 35.; Chas. Tandy .v. Jas. Driscoll,' JES Bs. 3d., costs Bs.; H. ,E. Anderson and H. Buddie v. Jas. Miller, i 8 18s. lid., costs 10s. ; Hotel Workers' Union v. Gilbert Wilby, jEl'lfe 6d., costs 55.; Elsie Gertrndo Diinock v. J. D. Howell, .£l3 155., costs <£1 13s. Gd); J. Wilson v. Mrs.. J. Collins, £3 19s. Id., oosts 10s.; P. Ahradser. v. W. H. Parata, M 155., costs iGlss.; H. C. Faulke v.'Thomas Harris and Mabel Harris, .£193 lis. Gd., 'cost? d£7 18s.; Solomon Riske v. W. Collins, £8 Is. 10d., costs.iGl 3s. Gd.; L. C. Kohn v. W. Young, J320 Bs. Gd., costs JS2 14s. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. . D.M. Murray, defendant, in a judgment suiininons case, was ordereU to pay to w. Wylie the sum of .£2 Gs. Id. on or before December 21, or to undergo 24 hours' imprisonment. Phillip George was ordered to pay to the Dominion Clothinjj Company the siim of i£4 2s. Od.' on or before December 21, in default to undergo three days' imprisonment. DEFENDED ACTION. / In the defended action John Contessa v. Laurence M'Donald, judgment was reserved. The claim was for ,£SO damages in respect of a collision on the PaekaKariki Hill between nlaintiff's motor-cycle and defendant's motor-car. . . ' OTHER CASES. IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION, ACT. A rather unusual prosecution was that •in which the Collector of Customs (Mr. E. R. Brabazon) proceeded against two Chinese residents for breach of the Immigration Restriction Act. The defen- . dants were named as Chan Tee Hop and his wife Van Cliu Ling.. Jfr. P.: S. Iv. Macassey, of the Cro-vn Law Office, represented the Collector of Customs, while Mr. E. G. Jellicoa (instructed by Messrs. O'Regan and Dickson) appeared for the defence, and tendered a plea :of not guilty. \r ■' Mr. Mttcassoy, in outlining the Crown case, stated that lie proposed to prove that /hi •' 1894 'a . Chinaman named Ah Young was naturalised in New Zealand, and that in 1895 Chan Yei Hop paid the poll tax in New Zealand, but did not take out naturalisation papers. Ah Young had since returned to China, leaving his naturalisation papers with a Chinaman in Masterton. These papers (the Crown alleged) had been secured by Chan Yee Hop, who went to Sydney, married Van Cliu Ling, and by making use of _th< naturalisation papers brought his wife into the Dominion without paying .£IOO poll tax. . . , Evidence vras called and the principal witnesses were submitted to lengthy cross-examination by counsel for the defence. Hearing had not concluded yesterday morning, and an adjournment was ordered until Thursday.

A "RETURNED" SOLDIER. A soldier named William George M'Donald, who pleaded guilty last week to a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond, appeared for sentence. He had obtained money from various persons by representing himself a 9 a returned wounded soldier and the eon .of a Minister of the Crown. Inspector Hendrey produced a record, which showed that the. accused had been released on probation while serving a sentence of five years' imprisonment after a career of crime,' his convictions including such offences as. theft and false pretenees. The Magistrate regarded M'Donald's latest crime as a particularly mean one—about the worst that had come under his Worship's notice. A sentence of 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour (the maximum penalty) was imposed. VAGRANCY. James Rhodes, an old man, who had been remanded on the previous day on a vagrancy chargo, was committed to the Ohiro Home. Alfred Nelson, for drunkenness, was fined 205., with the option of three days imprisonment, and Laurence M'Guire, similarly charged, was fined 105.,-tho alternative in his case being 48 houTS imprisonment. One first offending inebriate was also dealt with. JUVENILE COURT. Five boys appeared in the Juvenile Court yesterday to answer charges of theft from the bookstalls at Lambton and Thorndon Eailway Stations. The goods taken (cigarettes, tobacco, and matches) were valued at £5 Gs. Bd. , The eldest boy wa9 ordered to receive 12 strokes of the birch, while everyone of the others was ordered nine strokeo.